Jane Gordon: Don’t make criminals of our teenagers

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WALKING into the crime scene was not too traumatic. When we arrived home — early on Saturday — the house wasn’t cordoned off by police tape, and the evidence of what had gone on, while messy, was not much worse than anything we had been exposed to before. We have, you see, become used to such incidents, and it wasn’t until we had made our way down to the basement kitchen that we realised that there was an extra dimension to the criminal activity that had taken place in our home the previous night. In the corner of the room,